Uri Phullichette

Jesus Christ was crucified for our sins,fortunately that includes our ignorance too.Don’t believe anything you hear,and only half of what you read.🇺🇸 🇮🇪

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Along with many others, I was appalled by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s giggling dismissal of “Woke 1” as “crazy.”

In case you’ve forgotten, she herself was one of the most passionate advocates of de-funding the police, tearing down statues of American heroes, establishing racial quotas, dividing the country between oppressors and oppressed, etc.

I quite agree that these policy recommendations and policies were “crazy,” but she has to own up to endorsing them.

More to the point, Woke 1 was not only misguided; it was cruel.

One of the bitterest fruits of Wokeism was the cancel culture that resulted in armies of people losing jobs, reputations, and careers because they didn’t correspond to the reigning orthodoxy.

I happen to know several people whose lives were devastated by Woke crusaders.

But now it’s just “ha-ha, wasn’t that crazy.” No, it was brutal and inhumane.

[Jaylin Hertz @jaylinhertz]

I’m calling on Archbishop Richard Henning of Boston @bostoncatholic to publicly and formally EXCOMMUNICATE Maura Healey @maura_healey @MassGovernor.

Yesterday she signed the evil bill that allows children to be murdered up until birth.

We as Catholics must recognize and boldly speak out against those in positions of power who pass and sign gravely sinful legislation that legalizes the killing of the innocent.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Friends, in my evangelical work online, I often encounter people who are skeptical of religion—dismissing it as a tired, irrational superstition.

When I meet someone like this, I usually begin by asking them, “Do you believe in science?”

The typical response: “Well, of course.”

To which I say: The condition for the possibility of any science is the deep conviction that the world, in every nook and cranny, is intelligible. It has something like a rational pattern to it that can be understood. Otherwise, science wouldn’t get off the ground.

Albert Einstein famously put it this way: “The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it’s comprehensible.”

So here’s my question to critics of religion: How do you explain that? Where does this universal intelligibility—describable with the most complex mathematics—come from?

The answer I typically receive is “I don’t know; that’s just the way it is.”

I have a better answer: The world is marked by mathematically precise and complex intelligibility because it was made by a mathematician.

[ErikDPrince @realErikDPrince]

@TooWhiteToTweet Execute Execute Execute

[Tim Burchett @timburchett]

Jesus wept.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Apparently, the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts has determined not to count letter grades toward its freshmen’s GPAs during their first semester, starting in 2027. The reason given is that this move will address the growing mental health crisis among young people. Nothing could be further from the truth. It will, in fact, exacerbate the crisis.

Across cultures, one can discern a common pattern in the initiation rituals of primal peoples. The elders of the tribe rip a young person from the comfort of his home during the night. He is then scarified or otherwise physically marked in some way—a tooth is knocked out or his face is cut—in order to impress upon him that life is difficult.

Then he is introduced to the lore and history of his people, and finally he is taken to the edge of the wilderness, given a few simple provisions, and told to make his way for an extended period of time.

The entire purpose of the exercise is to break him free from the dominance of his self-regarding feelings and to orient him to the achievement of objective goods.

Plato famously compared the soul to a horse-drawn chariot. The animals represent the passions, which provide energy for the vehicle, and the driver represents intelligence and refined moral consciousness. As long as the charioteer is in place, the chariot makes its way purposefully. But if the charioteer is kicked out, the horses will run amok.

Our “suicidally empathetic” culture, which consistently privileges feeling over objective value, has produced armies of dangerously uninitiated young people. In terms of Plato’s metaphor, it has given rise to lots and lots of chariots with no sense of direction, crashing into one another.

Electing not to count first-semester grades toward students’ GPAs in order to spare the delicate emotions of eighteen-year-olds is, spiritually speaking, about as dumb a move as a university could make.

[George @Narrow_Gate3344]

A reading from the second 
Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians 9:6-10

Brothers and sisters: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each must do as already determined, without sadness or compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. Moreover, God is able to make every grace abundant for you, so that in all things, always having all you need, you may have an abundance for every good work. As it is written:
He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor;/his righteousness endures forever.
The one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness.
The word of the Lord.

[Shane Schaetzel †☧ @ShaneSchaetzel]

Catholics should only marry Catholics. It’s a total mess if you don’t. Sometimes it happens, and you’ve got to work with it, but if you can at all avoid marrying a non-Catholic, you should.

If you’re dating a non-Catholic right now. You should expect full conversion before marriage. And the conversion should be sincere, not just to marry you. That’s why it’s much better to date a convert who has already converted. Otherwise, stick to cradle Catholics.

[Raymond Arroyo @RaymondArroyo]

The Traditional Latin Mass is banned in another parish- this time in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. This is a slow rolling persecution of the faithful and very vibrant communities. This is why so many people and bishops are pressing the Pope to reexamine the legislation promulgated by Pope Francis that unleashed this liturgical warfare in the Church. Those who want sing alongs and hoe downs in their Masses have no shortage of options. But finding the ancient Mass of the Saints is all but impossible in many dioceses. It is now endangered species.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Distressing reports continue to arrive of innocent people being killed and injured in Ukraine and Russia. These incidents are occurring one after another, indeed they are multiplying, resulting in ever-increasing numbers of civilian victims, including children. My thoughts are with the victims’ families, the wounded and all those who are suffering due to the ongoing conflict.

[Frank Pavone @frfrankpavone]

Abortion asks us to believe location can change human value. I don't buy it.

[Karoline Leavitt @PressSec]

I was at Camp David with President Trump and Secretary Hegseth. This literally never happened, and we told the Washington Post that repeatedly. This B.S. story was shopped to many outlets by someone clearly out to disparage the Secretary, for whatever reason. Unfortunately for them, the President loves the Secretary and thinks he’s doing a tremendous job. FAKE NEWS!

[George @Narrow_Gate3344]

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew
17:1-9

Jesus took Peter, James, and his brother, John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light. And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, conversing with him. Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, “Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud cast a shadow over them, then from the cloud came a voice that said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.” When the disciples heard this, they fell prostrate and were very much afraid. But Jesus came and touched them, saying, “Rise, and do not be afraid.” And when the disciples raised their eyes, they saw no one else but Jesus alone.
As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus charged them, “Do not tell the vision to anyone until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”
The Gospel of the Lord.

[Joey Jones @Johnny_Joey]

Today is my “Alive Day”. On august 6th 2010 I stepped on an IED. I lived and Daniel Greer died. I spend 364 days a year dreading today. The emotions surrounding today are too complex and difficult to explain. I am overwhelmed with a wave of guilt and gratitude that feels inseparable and at times indistinguishable from one another. I wish 1000 times over Daniel Greer had lived and I had died that day. Yet, because he made that sacrifice I’m here and so is my daughter. I’ll spend the first few hours of this bittersweet anniversary in the middle seat of a @delta redeye home from Phoenix… its quite apropos to be reminded that even discomfort is a blessing when you shouldn’t be alive to feel it.

[Dave @davebftv]

Darnell Wright on his contract extension with the Bears:

"It’s just money. It doesn’t get me into heaven...the only person I want to give thanks to is Jesus."

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Friends, W. H. Auden said that we live in the age of anxiety, and isn’t that true? The existential angst many people feel, the sense of meaninglessness, the purposelessness, can seem to separate us from God. 

But it doesn’t. Rather, Jesus—who is God from God, light from light, true God from true God—enters into it. 

Think of Christ on the cross, experiencing the utmost anguish, peril, rejection, mockery, and worst persecution imaginable. The Son of God ventured into all of that, took it on, and conquered it through the resurrection.

[TreVeyon Henderson @TreVeyonH4]

I’ve heard the saying that “God gives his toughest battles to his toughest soldiers.” But when I see the disciples that Jesus chose and suffered for His name sake, I don’t see Him choosing the “toughest soldiers”, as I learn about men and women in the past and even today who have laid down their lives for Jesus, once again I don’t see God choosing His “toughest soldiers.” But I see a strong and mighty God choosing weak men and woman, and empowering them by His Holy Spirit to face some of the toughest battles and be used for His glory.

I once thought I was a “tough soldier” until I met Jesus, I then realized that I’m so weak without Him, and apart from Jesus I can’t do anything. I need Jesus daily. The only way that I can truly become who God wants me to be and truly do what God wants me to do, is not by my power not by my might, but only by The Spirit of The Living God. Thank you Jesus.

[Uri Phullichette @phullichette]

@realErikDPrince That’s a great quote.

[Tammy Peterson @Tammy1Peterson]

I have come to believe that faith is not only believing God exists. It is actually trusting him enough to hand him the parts of your life that feel the most out of control, the parts you would rather white knuckle through on your own.